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Brooklyn federal prosecutors widened their probe of soccer’s ruling body Thursday with the arrest of two more top bosses during a predawn operation at a Swiss hotel.
Alfredo Hawit, the head of Concacaf, the federation that includes North America, and Juan Napout, director of the South American confederation, Conmebol, were both taken into custody, according to a press release.
Additional arrests were expected Thursday.
Both Hawit and Napout are influential vice presidents of soccer’s governing body, FIFA, and serve on the agency’s executive committee.
Thursday’s operation marks the latest round of stunning arrests in a sprawling global probe that has shaken international soccer to its core.
The feds assert what the world has long suspected — that FIFA is corrupt from top to bottom.
Several officials have already been charged with graft and cronyism on an epic scale. FIFA bosses accepted massive bribes in exchange for awarding lucrative events to various countries, officials have said.
In addition, the organizations’s leaders frequently accepted payola from sports marketing companies desperate to secure valuable contracts with specific events.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Brooklyn US Attorney Robert Capers will discuss the arrests at an afternoon news conference in Washington, DC.
“FIFA became aware of the actions taken today by the US Department of Justice,” FIFA said in a statement. “FIFA will continue to cooperate fully with the US investigation as permitted by Swiss law, as well as with the investigation being led by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General.”


